We are searching for the best talent for J&J Technology XENA Software Engineering Off Cycle Co-Op – March to September 2026
Purpose:
Our J&J Technology Co-op Program is comprehensive learning and professional experience in the technology space at one of the world’s leading health care companies. Your application and area of interest will be used to determine which one of our many exciting positions best fits you. Co-op positions are full-time opportunities expecting to last from March 30th, 2026 – September 18th, 2026. This program also works as a feeder pool for our Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP) for full-time employment upon completion of your degree. If you are selected for a co-op position, you will work directly with your manager as your start date approaches to confirm your exact schedule.
As a J&J XENA Software Engineer Co-Op join our XENA Developer Experience team. A successful candidate will support our XENA platform, with a strong focus on engineering solutions such as the Hosted VSCode IDE, contributing to our XENA CLI & SDK, and GenAI related platform and codebases.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in engineering of a Hosted VSCode IDE based solution.
- Support the development and maintenance of Go (XENA CLI & SDK) & Python (GenAI MCP) based applications.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure software delivery processes are efficient and meet compliance standards.
- Assist in orchestrating automated deployments of applications via a GitOps (ArgoCD) approach.
- Participate in fixing and resolving build and deployment issues.
- Perform system and application monitoring to ensure efficient platform performance.
- Document processes and provide insights for improvements within DevOps lifecycle.
- Function independently on tasks and collaborate with team members and collaborators to achieve project goals.
Skills:
- Influencing and Impacting Others / Interpersonal Understanding
- Excellent communication, networking, and influencing skills
- High impact individual with the ability to lead, collaborate, challenge, and influence peers, subordinates and senior management to drive data quality measures and innovative strategies leading to business value/results
- Ability to drive resolution for critical issues by bringing in teams together – both J&J internal and external vendors
- A Change Agent with the ability to deal with ambiguity
- Maintains integrity and trust within and across all organizations and relationships
- Customer Orientation - Solicit and apply feedback from internal and external customers; Understand customers’ current and future expectations; Respond promptly to customer needs.
Required Qualifications
- Permanent US work authorization without the need for sponsorship now, or in the future (The company does not provide sponsorship for employment visa status. Students currently in the country on CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT require future sponsorship).
- Have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, which is reflective of all college coursework.
- Be currently enrolled and pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree, cannot graduate prior to agreed end date.
- For Bachelor level students, by start date, must be considered a sophomore or above.
- Ability to work full-time (40 hours a week during regular working business hours) for the full term. Planned dates of March – September 2026
- Have a passion for a career in technology
- Preferred fields include Information Management, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering / Development or Data Science
- Our JJT Co-op Program works as a feeder pool to our Technology Leadership Development Program (TLDP) for full-time employment upon completion of your degree.
